TV Retrospective: Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Season 1 episode 6-10

Harry Potter Month - Mini Review: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

So, we’ve made it to the fourth film, the first one to get a 12 (the UK equivalent of a PG-13 rating) in the UK. Why the change now? Partly it’s because of much darker content that more-or-less begins with this movie. Partly, and I’m only theorising here, is the introduction of a law in the UK that changed the 12 rating in cinemas to 12A, allowing children under the age of 12 to see such movies, providing they’re accompanied by an adult.

But that’s politics, we also have our third new director, Mike Newell after the director of the third movie Alfonso Cuarón denied stepping up for another movie. The movie was given a $150m budget and its performance was an improvement over the third, $896.9m earned in the box office. Critics enjoyed the movie, 88% rotten tomatoes rating and 81 on metacritic, for all that matters, it’s time to give my view.

Harry Potter Month - Mini Review: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Chris Columbus steps down as director and there are some significant changes in style as a result, most of which stick throughout the remaining films. Obviously the death of Richard Harris resulted in a recast for Dumbledore. Sir Michael Gambon took the role.

It was produced with a $130m budget and made $796.7m at the box office, which, whilst still successful, is the least of any Harry Potter movie. I’ll suggest a possible reason for the boost when I do the review for the next film, but let’s take a look at this one first.

Harry Potter Month - Mini Review: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

So we come to the second adaptation of a JK Rowling Novel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. 

Interestingly this movie only had a $100m budget as opposed to the $125m for the first one, the film made $879m, an admirable performance but still below that of the first one.

Critical response was also positive, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes although only 63/100 on metacritic, the least of any Harry Potter Movie. But I’m not here to judge on other’s opinions, I’m here to give my own, so let’s dive in.

Harry Potter Month - Mini Review: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

It’s Harry Potter Month. 

Where I do mini reviews of all but one of the Harry Potter because like hell am I doing long reviews of movies that are within the realms of 2 and a half hours long. In fact, I’m only really doing a long review of half a movie… OK, I’m going off a bit here but let’s just say that the Harry Potter films do question the myth that children have short attention spans.

So where better to start than the first movie: Harry Potter and the Philsopher’s (or if you’re in America Sorcerer’s because... I really don’t care, the books were written by J K Rowling in England, it’s Philosopher’s) Stone.

Released in 2001 the movie was given a $125m budget and naturally was a success, grossing $987m in the box office, the second highest of any of the Harry Potter movies.

Just a final note before I begin, I haven’t reread the books for the purposes of these reviews, I’m judging the film on its own merits, not as an adaptation (although for some intent, I will reference areas of the book that I remember)

Batman: Arkham Knight Review

I've spent quite a considerable portion of the last two weeks playing this game and have managed the following

1. 100% of main game
2. 100% of new game +
3. 100% Red Hood Pack
4. 100% Harley Quinn pack
5. 9/9 stars Scarecrow Nightmare missions

To do a review justice, I will have to talk spoilers eventually. But I'll discuss gameplay first for those who don't want spoilers for the full game

TV Retrospective: Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Season 1 episodes 1-5

With Avengers: Age of Ultron having come out only a few months back, it’s time I think to look at the Avengers cartoon

NO NOT THAT PIECE OF SH*T (Season 2 review coming when season 2 is done)

No, for this retrospective we’ll be looking at the full and complete run of Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.

Because of the long season lengths and the fact that I have other shows I want to do retrospectives on I will do each series in 5 parts (so 10 overall) so let’s dive into the first 5 episodes of the series.